Flora Renz
@florarenz.bsky.social
Academic law person at King’s College. Working on feminist, disability & gender things, also in case my employer is reading this: lots of criminal law. Held hostage by my beagle. All views my own & not peer reviewed.
I really enjoy the aspirational disability content in Wicked. Yes, we too can become autocratic dictators, dare to dream!
December 1, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I really enjoy the aspirational disability content in Wicked. Yes, we too can become autocratic dictators, dare to dream!
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'To be fair, I've spent the preceding seven paragraphs comparing the Killing Fields to London, and what I'm saying is obviously false on matters of fact, historically illiterate, a demonstrably false analogy, and morally grotesque, but maybe I have a point. In fact, I am absolutely right'
December 1, 2025 at 9:03 AM
'To be fair, I've spent the preceding seven paragraphs comparing the Killing Fields to London, and what I'm saying is obviously false on matters of fact, historically illiterate, a demonstrably false analogy, and morally grotesque, but maybe I have a point. In fact, I am absolutely right'
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It’s the time of year where barristers all over the country balance the solemnity of the crown court with improving client morale by the wearing of cute festive earrings.
Sure, you got 15 years for firearms trafficking but your barrister did wear tiny Rudolph earrings that made you smile.
Sure, you got 15 years for firearms trafficking but your barrister did wear tiny Rudolph earrings that made you smile.
December 1, 2025 at 8:10 AM
It’s the time of year where barristers all over the country balance the solemnity of the crown court with improving client morale by the wearing of cute festive earrings.
Sure, you got 15 years for firearms trafficking but your barrister did wear tiny Rudolph earrings that made you smile.
Sure, you got 15 years for firearms trafficking but your barrister did wear tiny Rudolph earrings that made you smile.
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Cris Shore studied the Big Four: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....
But in the UK there's lots of impact by NOUS and AdvanceHE. It's something that's FOIable (that QMUL had to give the info shows there's no way around it, as our FOI office tries *not* to when they can...) bsky.app/profile/qmuc...
But in the UK there's lots of impact by NOUS and AdvanceHE. It's something that's FOIable (that QMUL had to give the info shows there's no way around it, as our FOI office tries *not* to when they can...) bsky.app/profile/qmuc...
Sooooooo much money from tuition fees and public funds that gets moved to those commercial consultancies.
This was a very specific FOI about management consultancy commissions... (one away day for £7,200...)
This was a very specific FOI about management consultancy commissions... (one away day for £7,200...)
April 6, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Cris Shore studied the Big Four: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....
But in the UK there's lots of impact by NOUS and AdvanceHE. It's something that's FOIable (that QMUL had to give the info shows there's no way around it, as our FOI office tries *not* to when they can...) bsky.app/profile/qmuc...
But in the UK there's lots of impact by NOUS and AdvanceHE. It's something that's FOIable (that QMUL had to give the info shows there's no way around it, as our FOI office tries *not* to when they can...) bsky.app/profile/qmuc...
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Israel has ‘de facto state policy’ of organised torture, says UN report
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israel has ‘de facto state policy’ of organised torture, says UN report
Committee highlights allegations including dog attacks and sexual violence, raising concern about impunity for war crimes
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Israel has ‘de facto state policy’ of organised torture, says UN report
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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My latest article, “The Legal Somatics of Body Bequests Before the Anatomy Act 1832”, is published in Mortality, an interdisciplinary journal on death and dying. In the article, I analyze the medico-legal history of 18th- and 19th-century body bequests in England and Ireland. doi.org/10.1080/1357...
The legal somatics of body bequests before the Anatomy Act 1832
Without the authority of legislation in the United Kingdom, some bequeathed their bodies to physicians, surgeons and apothecaries to dissect and create anatomical specimens in the eighteenth and ea...
doi.org
November 25, 2025 at 12:18 AM
My latest article, “The Legal Somatics of Body Bequests Before the Anatomy Act 1832”, is published in Mortality, an interdisciplinary journal on death and dying. In the article, I analyze the medico-legal history of 18th- and 19th-century body bequests in England and Ireland. doi.org/10.1080/1357...
There are not enough ambassadors who also have metal bands
Taiwanese ambassador to Finland performs with his metal band at Taiwan-Finland cultural event! 🤘✊️
That's what I call great ambassador
That's what I call great ambassador
November 29, 2025 at 12:16 PM
There are not enough ambassadors who also have metal bands
I can’t explain how uncomfortable it makes me when Americans call Dachshunds wiener dogs
November 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I can’t explain how uncomfortable it makes me when Americans call Dachshunds wiener dogs
HAI!!! I’m just resting my head here because it’s very comfortable but not that you’ve noticed me perhaps you would like to…give a treat? For a good beagle? Who incidentally happens to be on your arm?
November 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM
HAI!!! I’m just resting my head here because it’s very comfortable but not that you’ve noticed me perhaps you would like to…give a treat? For a good beagle? Who incidentally happens to be on your arm?
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I heard a story about a female academic giving a paper at the IHR who, after receiving a long and aggressive question from a senior male professor, simply leaned back with her hands behind her head and replied “Oh, do fuck off.”
One of my colleagues went to a seminar at Berkeley and when someone asked a question Derrida brushed it off saying ‘what you ask may be important but it is not interesting’.
This path leads to chaos.
November 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I heard a story about a female academic giving a paper at the IHR who, after receiving a long and aggressive question from a senior male professor, simply leaned back with her hands behind her head and replied “Oh, do fuck off.”
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I work at CCCU so I can add a bit of detail. The huge majority of these additional students for us are not on-site, typical full-fee paying, they are 'partnership' students where the actual degree they study is franchised or validated from CCCU, but taught elsewhere.
'11 universities expanded by more than 11,000 students over the past decade, while the three institutions with the biggest growth expanded by more than 20,000 students – BPP University (28,915 more students), Canterbury Christ Church University (22,410) and UCL (21,490).' 3/3
November 28, 2025 at 8:29 AM
I work at CCCU so I can add a bit of detail. The huge majority of these additional students for us are not on-site, typical full-fee paying, they are 'partnership' students where the actual degree they study is franchised or validated from CCCU, but taught elsewhere.
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Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
November 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
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FUCK YEAH
Ejae all like:
"Yeah. Not only can i hit all those notes. I can hit them LIVE."
Ejae all like:
"Yeah. Not only can i hit all those notes. I can hit them LIVE."
Okay, the crowd going nuts like someone just scored a touchdown at the Super Bowl all *through* the KDH performance is a hell of a thing to see hear/see:
November 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
FUCK YEAH
Ejae all like:
"Yeah. Not only can i hit all those notes. I can hit them LIVE."
Ejae all like:
"Yeah. Not only can i hit all those notes. I can hit them LIVE."
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Let's try this again... Glad tidings we bring to you and your quim! We are fundraising this festive period. Earlier this year, the future looked bleak for the Vagina Museum. But we're still here, and there's many reasons for you to become a vital part of our future... www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2
November 27, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Let's try this again... Glad tidings we bring to you and your quim! We are fundraising this festive period. Earlier this year, the future looked bleak for the Vagina Museum. But we're still here, and there's many reasons for you to become a vital part of our future... www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2
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Academics - you should consider joining the ALCS (and perhaps the Society of Authors too)
ALCS Chair Tim Clement-Jones: "Since its founding, ALCS has been guided by the principle of "no use without payment" and we believe this is as pertinent as ever in the age of AI"
November 27, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Academics - you should consider joining the ALCS (and perhaps the Society of Authors too)
I think Rachel Clarke’s Breathtaking should be required viewing for anyone who was in politics during the COVID years. Hard to get a more accurate summary of the horrors of that period from a medical perspective. As a disabled person it felt so close to home I could only watch it in small increments
November 27, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I think Rachel Clarke’s Breathtaking should be required viewing for anyone who was in politics during the COVID years. Hard to get a more accurate summary of the horrors of that period from a medical perspective. As a disabled person it felt so close to home I could only watch it in small increments
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Strongly recommend ordering merch from MERL. Its high quality and it will make you highly desirable to your preferred genders and also command the loyalty of farm animals
It's a beautiful day. We just dropped new merch for the first time in a year.
merl-shop.co.uk
(and, yes: we ship internationally!)
🧵
merl-shop.co.uk
(and, yes: we ship internationally!)
🧵
November 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Strongly recommend ordering merch from MERL. Its high quality and it will make you highly desirable to your preferred genders and also command the loyalty of farm animals
Heterosexuality was a mistake
The women drawn to RFK Jr. see an intoxicating cocktail of romance and danger—whether it's getting attacked by a yak or texting about taking metaphorical bullets for each other.
But to most others, Kennedy is a reckless conspiracy theorist whose appetite for danger will result in a sicker America.
But to most others, Kennedy is a reckless conspiracy theorist whose appetite for danger will result in a sicker America.
The inexplicable sex appeal of RFK Jr.
How can such ferocious desire be attached to this man? Two memoirs by the women who love him offer some clues.
www.motherjones.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Heterosexuality was a mistake
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I have one jury hot take which I think is often missed from the discussion. The primary importance of a jury in criminal trials is not because it is somehow more democratic than judges or because a jury can reach a perverse verdict. Rather it is the safeguard that come from a consensus of numbers.
November 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I have one jury hot take which I think is often missed from the discussion. The primary importance of a jury in criminal trials is not because it is somehow more democratic than judges or because a jury can reach a perverse verdict. Rather it is the safeguard that come from a consensus of numbers.
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Sorry, no, Motability was not about 'helping the most vulnerable' - it was about providing people who need modified vehicles modified vehicles!
November 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Sorry, no, Motability was not about 'helping the most vulnerable' - it was about providing people who need modified vehicles modified vehicles!
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Thus far, no sign that the cycle to work rumour had any firm basis. Will that stay the same for long? Does the treasury recognise it's money well spent? Do they realise it could add yet more value if access is widened? Time will tell. www.cyclingelectric.com/news/cycle-t...
Update: Cycle to work scheme untouched at Autumn budget
Editor's Note: This story, which was based on a rumour in the national press, has not materialised in the November
www.cyclingelectric.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Thus far, no sign that the cycle to work rumour had any firm basis. Will that stay the same for long? Does the treasury recognise it's money well spent? Do they realise it could add yet more value if access is widened? Time will tell. www.cyclingelectric.com/news/cycle-t...
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Universities closing is bad news for many reasons
One concern I haven't seen data on is that those universities w/more low income students are likely greater risk
It might be seen as an accidental consequence but i will have short and long term effects on social mobility and economic grwoth
One concern I haven't seen data on is that those universities w/more low income students are likely greater risk
It might be seen as an accidental consequence but i will have short and long term effects on social mobility and economic grwoth
Chief exec of OfS 'said the OfS believes there are 24 institutions at risk of exiting the market in the next 12 months, seven of which are large providers with more than 3,000 students. There are another 25 or so institutions of various sizes at risk over a two- to three-year period, she added.'
Seven ‘large providers’ at risk of going under in the next year
Skills minister says no higher education institutions are at imminent risk of collapse this year but OfS confirms more than 20 providers are being closely monitored
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Universities closing is bad news for many reasons
One concern I haven't seen data on is that those universities w/more low income students are likely greater risk
It might be seen as an accidental consequence but i will have short and long term effects on social mobility and economic grwoth
One concern I haven't seen data on is that those universities w/more low income students are likely greater risk
It might be seen as an accidental consequence but i will have short and long term effects on social mobility and economic grwoth
I must say eating my lunch in the bathroom between seminars because estates had trapped me in the building by blocking the accessible entrance has been a real low point of my academic career
November 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I must say eating my lunch in the bathroom between seminars because estates had trapped me in the building by blocking the accessible entrance has been a real low point of my academic career
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Finally, watch those doors and check those gates as clueless relatives and excess children swarm in and out of the house.
Dolly says, "I was a stray and then I escaped from my foster home and I am a proud Home Again microchip spokesbeagle. Thank you for your attention to this announcement."
Dolly says, "I was a stray and then I escaped from my foster home and I am a proud Home Again microchip spokesbeagle. Thank you for your attention to this announcement."
November 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Finally, watch those doors and check those gates as clueless relatives and excess children swarm in and out of the house.
Dolly says, "I was a stray and then I escaped from my foster home and I am a proud Home Again microchip spokesbeagle. Thank you for your attention to this announcement."
Dolly says, "I was a stray and then I escaped from my foster home and I am a proud Home Again microchip spokesbeagle. Thank you for your attention to this announcement."
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Conservative ministers as well as the government should apologise to the thousands of carers treated disgracefully under a failing, broken Carer’s Allowance system.
As things stand, carers may face many more months of being hounded by the DWP.
As things stand, carers may face many more months of being hounded by the DWP.
November 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Conservative ministers as well as the government should apologise to the thousands of carers treated disgracefully under a failing, broken Carer’s Allowance system.
As things stand, carers may face many more months of being hounded by the DWP.
As things stand, carers may face many more months of being hounded by the DWP.